Eric Blake wrote: > Unfortunately, 'make check' is failing almost all of the tests on > cygwin. Why? Because init.sh uses find_exe_basenames_ to see whether > all .exe files are safe to install a shim function around, but [.exe > fails the test. Meanwhile, create_exe_shims_ returns 1 rather than 0 > (or 77) when skipping a directory, which makes path_prepend_ fail almost > every single test with the message 'something failed (above): > /path/to/coreutils/src)'. > > I'm thinking that init.sh should skip problematic files (we're less > likely to be testing [ directly to have to worry about conflicts with
Skipping sounds best to me. > [.exe) rather than giving up on the entire directory. Any other > opinions, or should I go ahead and propose a patch? Please do.
